In the 14th year of Yuan Dynasty (1277), Yuan Shizu allowed the reconstruction of Quanzhou Shipping Department for the first time. Quanzhou's overseas transportation trade entered a golden age. Maritime trade extends to Japan in the east and southeast Asia, Persia, Arabia and Africa in the west. Sea ant colony is praised as "Erythrina is one of the largest ports in the world". In the Travels of Marco Polo, Quanzhou Port is known as the largest port in the East, and Columbus, deeply influenced by the Travels of Marco Polo, set out to find a new route to the East.

At the turn of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the local authorities in charge of Quanzhou Port surrendered to the political forces and rebelled against the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Quanzhou Port is still prosperous without war. In the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou was also the first major port on the Maritime Silk Road.

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China's Maritime Silk Road is mainly composed of Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Ningbo, as well as other branch ports. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, Guangzhou was the most prosperous of the three ports, followed by Mingzhou and Quanzhou. In the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou Port began to overtake Mingzhou, ranking second in the country. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it gradually caught up with Guangzhou. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou surpassed Guangzhou in one fell swoop to become the leader of national foreign trade and entered its heyday. Until the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou Port was still ahead of Zhuhai Port in China.

Quanzhou was at the peak of the Maritime Silk Road (12-14th century), and it was also the period when ancient China was in a dominant position in Chinese and foreign trade. Quanzhou, as the eastern support point of the East-West international trade network, occupies an important and unique historical position. Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty can be described as "trading with each other, each with its own way". At that time, the commodities imported from this maritime trade portal were mainly jewelry, spices and medicines, and the export commodities were mainly Quanzhou famous products such as satin, porcelain, tea, copper and iron.

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